SKILL BUILDING
Skill Building choice lessons are designed to help students review concepts and to continue to develop their craft as an artist. Choose one, choose them all! Have fun and be creative!
Around the country, communities are sharing positive messages with each other by doing sidewalk chalk drawings.
With your parent's permission spread positive messages in your own neighborhood by doing your own sidewalk chalk drawings.
Chalk your Walk
Judith Scott: Strings and Things
Scott used a number of everyday materials that came from a variety of places, including her home. Gather materials from your home and places you visit regularly. Choose items that have different textures, shapes, colors, and sizes. Create a sculpture from them that uses at least one of the following Use tape, string, or rubber bands to assemble your sculpture. Experiment with supplies that Scott used in her earlier works, such as paper, glue, crayons, and colored pencils, to add further decorative elements.
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Found objects
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Recycled Materials
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Extras-paper, glue, crayons etc...
Peter Longstaff: Foot Drawing
Peter Longstaff is a foot painter. Being born without arms, Peter quickly learned to use his feet to create his art. See if you can create like Peter. Try holding a pencil in your toes to draw a picture.
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Paper
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Pencil
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Crayons/markers